Television

Wednesday, April 14

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Guest: Dancer Gwen Verdon.

Friday, April 16

FDR (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). "All Aid Short of War" takes up the isolation v. intervention debate, Lend-Lease, and Harry Hopkins' mission to London early in 1941.

Saturday, April 17

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL (ABC, 2 p.m. to conclusion). Viewers get a chance to scout the opposition out of town: New Yorkers will see Baltimore at Boston; Eastern, Central and Mountain Time zones will get San Francisco at New York; the West Coast scouts Chicago at Milwaukee.

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National A.A.U. Women's Indoor Swimming and Diving Championships from City of Commerce, Calif., plus the N.C.A.A. Wrestling Championships from Laramie, Wyo.

Sunday, April 18

EASTER SPECIAL (CBS, 10 a.m. to noon). Folk songs and spirituals by Odetta, and the Easter services at Manhattan's St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, including a medieval mystery play, The Resurrection.

DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live telecast of an Easter Vigil service, an ancient Catholic tradition revived in 1951 by Pius XII, now celebrated for the first time in English, from the Church of St. Gregory the Great in Baltimore.

NBC SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). Britain's rowing spectacular, the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames; and the North American Gymnastics Championships in Philadelphia.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Supersonic Jet Race," a report on the multibillion-dollar commercial aviation duel between Europe and the U.S.

WORLD WAR I (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). "Heritage of War," last of a worthwhile series.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Leontyne Price, the Noah's ark scene from John Huston's upcoming film The Bible.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Billy Wilder's 1959 gem Some Like It Hot, with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis as members of an all-girl band.

Monday, April 19

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "United Nations: Beleaguered Fortress" examines 20 years of growth, change and frustration, including the U.N.'s current crisis.

Tuesday, April 20

OUR MAN IN WASHINGTON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). David Brinkley's second annual report on the doings in D.C.

THEATER

On Broadway

MAURICE CHEVALIER AT 77 is exchanging presents with his audience, and on both sides the gift is love. It takes more than indestructible charm and supershowmanship to hold international theatergoers for more than half a century. It also takes a good heart, and a good heart, as Shakespeare said, is the sun and the moon.

THE ODD COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this menage produces a volcanic flow of laughs.

LUV. Nichols at work again. Here Author Murray Schisgal spoofs the couch-prone and their litter-perfect recitations of the Freudian catechism. The combined talents of the director and Actors Alan Arkin, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson are eruptively comic.

TINY ALICE. The symbolic heroine of Edward Albee's opaque and pretentious allegory is either God or the absence of God--no one seems to know, but everyone seems to enjoy talking about it, and Sir John Gielgud's performance is an indisputable gem.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A feline prostitute (Diana Sands) purrs and claws at an above-sex book clerk (Alan Alda) and proves that if you scratch a prude you sometimes find a man.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Zero Mostel, a virtuoso of the mind's merriment and the heart's grief, dominates this wistfully nostalgic musical about a small Jewish community in the Russia of 1905.

Off Broadway

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The campy style of this revue rarely dims the cornucopian delight of Cole Porter's lesser-known but invariably worldlywise, witty and tuneful songs. Kaye Ballard, a supreme clown, heads an irrepressible and attractive cast of five.

JUDITH. The late French dramatist Jean Giraudoux plays Shavian hob with the apocryphal tale of the Jewish heroine who saved Israel by killing the Assyrian general Holofernes. In the title role, Rosemary Harris is tartly, tenderly, elusively and enchantingly feminine.

RECORDS

Jazz

PAUL DESMOND: BOSSA ANTIGUA (RCA Victor). Bossa antigua, which is archaic Portuguese for "old thing" (modern spelling: antiga), is the latest version of bossa nova, the now-old new thing. A cool and polished jazzman, Desmond dubs himself "the John P. Marquand of the alto sax," and his inventions are as danceable as Marquand's were readable. Desmond's usual sidekick, Dave Brubeck, is not along; the soft plunking is by Guitarist Jim Hall.

MILES DAVIS: MY FUNNY VALENTINE (Columbia). Occasionally the rhythm section of the quintet surreptitiously swings, but the center of attention is almost continuously Miles's trumpet as it goes its own exploratory way, often filling the air with inconclusive but poetic wisps or skittering gusts. Apart from the title tune, cues for introspection include All of You, All Blues and Stella by Starlight.

LALO SCHIFRIN: NEW FANTASY (Verve). A brassy 18-man band is a virtuoso instrument in the hands of Conductor Schifrin, who uses it to play his own incendiary arrangements of The Peanut Vendor and Khatchaturian's Sabre Dance, as well as sweetly floating versions of Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 and The Blues from Ellington's Black, Brown and Beige Suite.

MONK (Columbia). Thelonious is in exceptionally high spirits as he leads his quartet and performs his piano sleight of hand on five standards (including April in Paris, That Old Man). He allows the theme of each to stand up and be quoted, then whisks it away to bring it back in a dozen imaginative disguises. Monk also plays his own Pannonica, which is the exotic first name of his friend the Baroness de Koenigswarter.

WAYNE SHORTER: NIGHT DREAMER (Blue Note). Tenor Saxman Shorter writes cosmic prose ("What I'm trying to express here is a sense of judgment approaching") and earthy jazz. After a few sleepy bars, his Night Dreamer becomes a swinging somnambulist, and his next five pieces (including Black Nile and Armageddon), all in the modern, freewheeling jazz idiom, are also energetic and full-bodied, drummed along insistently by Elvin Jones.

STAN KENTON: WAGNER (Capitol). Murder! In a misguided effort to infuse new life into jazz, Veteran Bandleader Kenton has arranged excerpts from five Wagnerian operas, of all things. In the course of "artistically splashing tonal and rhythmic color" over them, as the record jacket puts it, he has dismembered and smothered the originals. The macabre results include a stumbling, tin-hoofed Ride of the Valkyries and a Funeral March that dies on its feet.

CINEMA

IN HARM'S WAY. Director Otto Preminger steers John Wayne, Patricia Neal and a shipshape supporting cast through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, thence into half a dozen slick, interlocking tales of vice, valor and victory in the Pacific.

THE OVERCOAT. An insignificant penpusher (Roland Bykov) loses his new overcoat and with it his reason for existence in this small, delicate Russian tragedy based on Gogol's classic story.

A BOY TEN FEET TALL. A crackling African adventure story about a stray British orphan (Fergus McClelland) and a fugitive diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) whose hideout is the kind of paradise that all boys dream about.

THE TRAIN. Excitement piles up quite literally in Director John Frankenheimer's World War II drama about a trainload of stolen French art, racing toward the German border with Hero Burt Lancaster hot on its wheels.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC. The Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein operetta looses a landslide of sentimentality, but its most spectacular effects are achieved by Julie Andrews and the Tyrolean Alps.

DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. As a Parisian servant in a provincial home, Jeanne Moreau smoothly finds her way through a bleak, bitter satire directed by Luis Bunuel (Viridiana).

RED DESERT. A wasteland created by heavy industry pollutes the psyche of a young wife (Monica Vitti) in Director Michelangelo Antonioni's provocative, painterly first color film.

MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. The exuberant 20-year courtship of a Neapolitan pastryman (Marcello Mastroianni) and his resourceful doxy (Sophia Loren), who follows the primrose path to the altar.

HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. Jack Lemmon, Terry-Thomas and Italy's Virna Lisi brighten some nonsense about a bachelor who wakes up married and rues it.

ZORBA THE GREEK. Memorably cast as the hero of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, Anthony Quinn tramples the grapes of wrath into the wine of life.

BOOKS

Best Reading

ATATURK, by Lord Kinross. An acute and readable biography of the mercurial autocrat who singlehanded transformed Turkey from a decadent relic of medieval Byzantium into a modern state.

THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN, by Christina Stead. This singular novel of family life was considered too intemperate when it was first published in 1940. Now, countless case studies later, Miss Stead's distillation of the warfare between neurotic parents rings terrifyingly true.

CASTLE KEEP, by William Eastlake. A medieval castle in the Ardennes is occupied by a decadent count, his child-wife, and a bumbling, boondoggling bunch of G.I.s who find themselves squarely in the path of the German thrust for Bastogne. Interweaving satire, tragedy and gothic mystery, Novelist Eastlake has created a small, surreal masterpiece.

THE FAMILY MOSKAT, by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The story of a wealthy Warsaw family, told with richness and scope reminiscent of the great 19th century Russian novels. Singer, too often tagged as "the master of Yiddish prose," ranks among the best contemporary novelists in any language.

LINCOLN'S SCAPEGOAT GENERAL, by Richard S. West Jr. Next to McClellan, the Union's most controversial Civil War general was Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. Like McClellan, he was weak in the field, but he was an efficient military governor of New Orleans and a doughty champion of liberal causes during the Reconstruction.

THE GOLD OF THE RIVER SEA, by Charlton Ogburn. His plot has enough vigor and ingenuity to sustain a three-year television serial, but Novelist Ogburn's most memorable achievement is his depiction of the Amazon, an evocation in the tradition of Mark Twain's 'Mississippi.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (2)

3. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (3)

4. Up the Down Staircase, Kaufman (6)

5. Hotel, Hailey (5)

6. The Man, Wallace (4)

7. Don't Stop the Carnival, Wouk (7)

8. Ski Bum, Gary

9. The Ordways, Humphrey (9)

10. The Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt (8)

NONFICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (1)

2. Queen Victoria, Longford (2)

3. The Founding Father, Whalen (3)

4. The Italians, Barzini (4)

5. My Shadow Ran Fast, Sands (5)

6. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley (9)

7. Reminiscences, MacArthur (6)

8. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (7)

9. Catherine the Great, Oldenbourg (8)

10. How to Be a Jewish Mother,

Greenburg

*All times E.S.T.

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